In Germany from the Leipsic Disputation to the Diet at Worms - James Aitken Wylie

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Meanwhile Eck had triumphed at Rome. On the 15th of June, 1520, the Sacred College brought their lengthened deliberations to a close by agreeing to fulminate the bull of excommunication against Luther. The elegancies or barbarisms of its style are to be shared amongst its joint concoctors, Cardinals Pucci, Ancona, and Cajetan. "Now," thought the Vulcans of the Vatican, when they had forged this bolt, "now we have finished the business. There is an end of Luther and the Wittemberg heresy." To know how haughty at this moment was Rome's spirit, we must turn to the bull itself. "Arise, O' Lord!"–so ran this famous document–"arise and be Judge in Thy own cause. Remember the insults daily offered to Thee by infatuated men. Arise, O Peter! remember thy holy Roman Church, the mother of all Churches, and mistress of the faith. Arise, O Paul! for here is a new Porphyry, who is attacking thy doctrines, and the holy Popes our predecessors'! Arise, in fine, 34
assembly of all the saints, holy Church of God, and intercede with the Almighty!" The bull then goes on to condenm as scandalous, heretical, and damnable, forty-one propositions extracted from the writings of Luther. The obnoxious propositions are simple statements of Gospel truth. One of the doctrines singled out for special anathema was that which took from Rome the right of persecution, by declaring that "to burn heretics is contrary to the will of the Holy Ghost." After the maledictory clauses of the bull, the document went on to extol the marvellous forbearance of the Holy See, as shown in its many efforts to reclaim its erring son. To heresy Luther had added contumacy. He 'had had the hardihood to appeal to the General Council in the face of the decretals of Plus II. and Julius II.; and he had filled up the measure of his sins by slandering the immaculate Papacy. The Papacy, nevertheless, yearned over its lost son, and "imitating the omnipotent God, who desireth not the death of a sinner," earnestly exhorted the prodigal to return to the bosom of his mother, to bring back with him all he had led astray, and make proof of the sincerity 35
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Chapter 4 Luther Summoned to the Di
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charges against the Reformer were s
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himself to the assembly. His words
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specified abuses. The Diet did not
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patiently wait and obediently liste
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Scriptures, and required the Pope t
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Scripture, emancipated him complete
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Chapter 5 Luther's Journey and Arri
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growing more intolerable, would be
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y the magistrates, waited to bid hi
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cowl, and goes bare-foot; another d
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Maine, Luther suffered from sicknes
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It was ten o'clock in the morning o
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though doubtless a wholly undesigne
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taken possession of his lodgings wh
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Chapter 6 Luther Before the Diet at
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courtiers and their friends, to the
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Archduke Ferdinand; six electors of
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is not to be confounded with the Dr
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The Chancellor Eck advanced to the
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all the time he stood in his presen
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only by his feeling that-to use Mel
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"Lord, where stayest thou?... O my
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the Diet in deep deliberation. When
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admit-truths which are essential to
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ecclesiastical profession; but alth
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wise, to strengthen their dominion.
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Unless, therefore, I am convinced b
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assembly read the stern, indomitabl
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Chapter 7 Luther Put Under the Ban
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instantly dispersed, and the city w
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they submitted one insidious propos
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indignation. The extreme men of the
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checking the Pope, which he found h
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the startling affirmation that "thi
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they came under the walls of a cast
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have seen, to revolve its lessons,
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